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Area: 780,580 sq km Land: 770,760 sq km
Arable land: 32% Irrigated land: 36,740 sq km
Infant mortality rate: 47.34 deaths/1,000 live births
Total fertility rate: 2.12 children born/woman
Religions: Muslim 99.8% (mostly Sunni), other 0.2% (Christian and Jews)
Ethnic groups: Turkish 80%, Kurdish 20%
Judicical System: Constitutional Court (judges are appointed by the president); Court of Appeals (judges are elected by Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors)
Legal System: derived from various European continental legal systems
GDP per capita: $6,800 GDP — agriculture: 15% industry: 29% services: 56% Unemployment rate: 5.6% Literacy — male: 94% female: 77%
Exports: $26.9 billion Commodities: apparel 25.6%, foodstuffs 15.4%,
textiles 12.3%, metal manufactures 8.6%, transport equipment 8.1%
Exports partners: Germany 18.7%, US 11.4%, UK 7.4%, Italy 6.3%, France 6.0%
Imports: $55.7 billion Commodities: machinery 28.3%, chemicals 15.2%,
semi-finished goods 14.5%, fuels 11%, transport equipment 9.5%
Imports partners: Germany 13.1%, Italy 7.9%, US 7.2%, Russia 7.0%, France 6.6%, UK 5.0%
Telephones — main lines in use: 19.5 million Internet Service Providers: 22
Manpower fit for military service: 11,432,438
Military expenditures: $10.6 billion — 5.6% of GDP
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Independence: 29 October 1923
Government type: Republican
parliamentary democracy
Population: 66,493,970
38% (Source: 1997, State Institute of Statistics, Turkey <http://www.ibge.gov.br/poverty/pdf/turkey1.pdf>